The next section is the series of switchbacks - steep, slippy - and by the first turn your legs will be feeling the slope. The easiest way down is to choose a large rock, that looksstable and then let your legs catch the slope, and use the rock to stop yourself before you loosecontrol. It is probably best to choose a rock only four or five steps away. The other choice is to try and maintain control over each and every step. Even with the first method your legs are going to be sore at the end, but I would think with the full control method, they would be agony.

Local loonies are not as easy to spot, normally because they are away before the noder realises they were there. The actual Ben mainly collects a particular kind of loonie, but Glen Nevis has another two distinct kinds. All will be examined here.